---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- text-classification
tags:
- safety
- content-moderation
- slang
- youth-language
- benchmark
size_categories:
- n<1K
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_5.csv
- config_name: baseline_v7
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "Gen Alpha Baseline - V7.csv"
---

# GenAlphaBench

A safety-annotated benchmark of 239 Generation Alpha (born 2010-2024) expressions for
evaluating LLM comprehension and safety assessment of youth digital language. Each
expression is annotated across a six-category risk taxonomy (R0 neutral through R5
cultural variant), platform contexts, community origin, temporal metadata, and usage
examples, with per-expression source documentation for origin, meaning, and evolution
claims.

**Canonical file: `Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_5.csv`** (see `CHANGELOG.md` for the version
history). Earlier versions are retained: `Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_4_2.csv` and
`Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_4_1.csv` (intermediate provenance releases) and
`Gen Alpha Baseline - V7.csv`, the version the paper's model evaluations were run
against, kept for reproducibility. The baseline differs from the canonical file at
ids 220 and 232, where two expressions were substituted, and lacks the provenance
columns.

## Provenance columns

- `origin_sources` — documentary sources supporting each community-origin label
  (format `type:URL | type:URL`, two independent sources required); full audit trail
  with per-source evidence quotes in `origin_sources_audit.csv`
- `attribution_basis` — `documentary` (two sources), `documentary_single` (one), or
  `informant` (native-speaker attestation by the Gen Alpha member of the research team)
- `meaning_sources` / `meaning_basis` — a public source defining the expression
  consistently with `basic_meaning`; basis is `informant_cohort_documentary` or
  `informant_cohort` (native-speaker authorship validated by the 24-member peer cohort)
- `evolution_sources` / `evolution_basis` — dated documentation of the meaning shift
  described in `evolution_notes`; `informant_documentary` or `informant`

Coverage: 234/239 meanings and 184/239 evolution notes carry documentary sources;
the remainder are explicitly informant-based, concentrated among post-2024 expressions
that no dictionary or reference site has yet recorded — absence of documentation for
recent coinages is part of what the benchmark measures. In v7.4.1, nine origin labels
were re-coded to `none` after the documentary audit; in v7.4.2, sixteen expressions
whose audited sources attribute origin to Black queer, drag, or ballroom culture were
re-coded to the joint `AAVE/LGBTQ+` value.

## Content notice

The dataset documents coded slurs, suicide-baiting language, sexual euphemisms, and
references to violence, included for the purpose of evaluating detection capabilities.
Community-origin labels exist for bias auditing only. Not intended for: training
harmful-content generators, differential moderation by community origin, or
surveillance of youth communication.

## Collection

Expressions were identified through observation of publicly circulating vocabulary and
verified against public documentation. The dataset contains no user posts, quotations,
usernames, or personal data; usage examples are composed by the research team. Risk
labels were validated by a cohort of 24 Gen Alpha participants (ages 11-14, parental
consent, kappa = 0.81); label disagreements were resolved by expert review.

## Evaluation code and leaderboard

https://github.com/SystemTwoAI/GenAlphaSlang — verbatim prompts, scoring pipeline,
validation scripts, and a public model leaderboard under a pinned LLM-judge protocol.